How Music Got Free
“Uncover the secrets behind the crime we all committed.”
2024•TV-14•1 Seasons•2 Episodes•7.5•Ended
DocumentaryCrime
Details the fascinating, and often funny, inside story of the technology-driven disruption that changed music during the late-90s and early-2000s. File sharing technology, combined with the insatiable demand for new music, created both the means and the motive for millions of young people to participate in outright theft – and be celebrated for it.
Network
Paramount+
Origin
US
Cast
Rhymefest
Self - Artist
Eminem
Self - Music Artist
Method Man
Self - Narrator (voice)
Dell
Self - CD Plant Employee/Pirating
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